Posted on 11/22/2007 4:43:01 PM PST by kristinn
FreeRepublic.com, the eleven-year-old conservative granddaddy of political discussion websites, was rated the most popular political website by Hitwise, an Internet data tracking service, for the week ending November 17, 2007 with 5.14% market share.
The liberal site, HuffingtonPost.com, founded two-and-a-half years ago, was the only site that came close to Free Republic in interest from net users, with 4.51% market share. In a distant third place, the five-year-old liberal site DailyKos.com, was left in the dust by Free Republic and Huffington Post, garnering only 2.57% market share.
The others sites Hitwise listed were, in order, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com with 2.17%; townhall.com with 2.1%; buzzflash.com with 1.95%; politico.com with 1.9%; humanevents.com with 1.84%; realclearpolitics.com with 1.72% and democraticunderground.com with 1.69%.
Free Republic has received none of the fawning promotion in the mainstream media that its nearest competitors get. It takes no paid advertising, has no membership fees and relies solely on donations for its existence. Its founder and webmaster, Jim Robinson, is not touted as a political player like Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga are. The site has endured withering criticism this year by pundits from Bill O'Reilly to Patrick Ruffini. Yet, Free Republic survives and thrives as one of the most popular and influential political websites.
From leading the charge to impeach President Bill Clinton in 1998, to the 2004 exposing of the fraudulent National Guard documents that led to Dan Rather's firing by CBS News, to the recent deep-sixing of expansion of the S-CHIP program, Freepers, as members at the site are known, have changed politics in America.
Liberals despise them, some conservatives seeth with envy, yet none can deny that more than a decade in to the online revolution, Free Republic is still a force to be reckoned with.
Do not forget that getting old also beats the alternative...
Absolutely!
Only registered a few years ago.
But have been a conservative for what seems forever!
How long?
Let’s just say I cut my ideological teeth on The Freeman and Intercolegiate Review, own issue #1 of National Review and that I still remember wearing a poltical button that said AuH2O.
Was at the battle since the inception..and was happy to see the Cold War won..by one of OURS..Ronald Reagan,(greatest president of MY lifetime) and I’m proud, VERY PROUD to see the torch being passed to people who have shown themselves so capable of continuing to win!
Keep up the good work Jim ... and all you younger FREEPERS!!
Yup. You beat me fair and square. Remember Eschoir, Ash, Don Morgan and quidam? Those were the days.
This is why I’m still here .. the “Liberals despise them”.
Happy Thanksgiving kristinn....Great report!
“[L]eads” was supposed to be “heads,” but I guess an old-timer like you would know that. ;)
FR:
Me love you LONG time!
Congrats JR, Mod squad,
tdice
quidam!!!! LOL!~!!
Trust Starr.
HA! Huntgren Forest or something...LOL!
LOL. Yah, when I started, we didn’t have zeroes and ones. We only had zeroes. It was tough :o)
LOL! True. And back then, they wouldn’t even let females work with the zeroes! ;)
IMO our Sunday meetings are more interesting than the other stuff. :D
did you get my email?
IMO our Sunday meetings are more interesting than the other stuff. :D
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Heck Yeah!! and We have a Color Guard and a flyover to boot.. ;-)
Hi y’all
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